S74 Silks: Up, Down, or Who Cares?

[Paul S]

Oh my, now I feel that I have to have some. By they way, if not holdered how do people store them?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Paul S

Oh my, now I feel that I have to have some. By they way, if not holdered how do people store them?

Penny sleeve and top loader for me...just like cards.

[kilo]

Penny sleeve and top loader for me...just like cards.

+1 here too....

--mike.

[rsst206]

Hi Bob,
Nice write up. I have been seriously collecting these for almost 10 yrs.
Every graded one I purchase gets removed. Trying to do a master set of both
whites and colored. 1100 different and counting. I am such a hoarder can't really seem to get rid of duplicates. But I think its about time. I have over 500 upgrades a lot of whites with out backs and around 100 with backs.
Eyes are getting bad and with bad scans I seem to buy the same colored one over and over. Here are some Old Mills.

I honestly wouldn't waste my money on grading these. Like stated above, haven't seen them reprinted but have seen and purchased graded trimmed ones. The grading companies who grade them are all over the board.

Any board members have any that they want to sell or trade
Ronaldscottskaggs@gmail.com

[BobC]

Hi Ron,

You and I have talked in the past and locked horns on going after some silks over the years. Back when Fleabay would actually show other bidders names I used to come in second to you so many times it wasn't funny. I'm as bad as you in regards to the silks but, only have about half as many as you have. Still don't have every single one of the white silks with a paper ad attached. Keep looking but, the ones I'm still missing never seem to come up with the paper still attached.

Leon, Understand about not going too crazy in collecting type cards. Just thought you might want to know that the Turkey Red silks that have a border on the advertising back do come in two different colors, the blue you show in your scan, and then a black version like the other silks you have. Never seen different colored backs for any of the other versions of the silks, they are in black ink.

As for the crocheted silk I have, you're right, they don't go for much money and you do occasionally see some silks sewn onto pillows and covers and such that come up for sale now and then. Always surprised there isn't more interest in them.

No one has taken a stab at my question yet about how you can tell if someone tries to use a paper backing from one of the actress silks and stick it on a ball player silk instead to try to increase the value. Anyone have an idea?

BobC

[t213]

I'm a closet silk hoarder and have been picking them up for the last couple years.

Andy

[BobC]

Andy,

I've seen you post and talk about collecting silks in the past I think. Weren't you at one time trying to complete the white version set, all with advertising backs attached? I seem to remember you saying you got up to somewhere in the upper 60's as to the number of different silkd from the set you had with backs still on them. And then you changed interests for some reason and divested some of your S74s and went in a different collecting direction for a while. Remember hearing you had quite a collection of the silks.

BobC

[Ease]

I asked Archive, and he says actress backs are a speckled cardboard, while ballplayer backs are smooth.

[BobC]

Its even easier to tell the difference than that. For some reason the word "baseball" is spelled as one word on all the advertising backs for the ball players while on the actress silks it is spelled "base ball", as two words. No idea why, just noticed it one time and realized it was kind of odd seeing as how these silks were all going into the same cigarette packages back in the day.

BobC

[andybecker]

Originally Posted by Ease

I asked Archive, and he says actress backs are a speckled cardboard, while ballplayer backs are smooth.

this is true.

Hi Leon, Ron, and Bob.....it's like a silk reunion

i hope you all have been well. good luck adding to your silk collections.

dibs.....lol.....